Join more than 5,000 travellers who subscribe to my free e-mail newsletter!

Messages are sent no more than once a week, often less (especially when I'm travelling myself).

Send me an e-mail message at
and I will add you to my mailing list.

I manage my mailing list manually. I used to have an automated sign-up form on my Web site,
but it got attacked by too many spammers. Just send me an e-mail message at the address above
(it's in an image to make it slightly harder for spammers to harvest) and I will sign you up.

While you are writing, please let me know what you like and/or dislike on this site, or want me to write more about.

My privacy policy and promises::

This blog, e-mail newsletter, and subscription lists are maintained by Edward Hasbrouck. I'm an outspoken privacy advocate, and I try to practice what I preach.

In consideration of your giving me your e-mail address, I promise to use your e-mail address only to send my e-mail newsletter and notifications of updates to my blog. If you ask to unsubscribe, I promise to honor your request.

I maintain these lists myself, as securely as I know how. So far as I know, no one has access to them except me and the administrators of the system on which this Web site is hosted. So far as I know, they have never tried to abuse their power as system administrators.

This Web site and list server are hosted in Canada, not in the USA.
The privacy of information concerning visitors to this Web site and
subscribers to my newsletter is protected by Canadian laws including
the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
Because I administer this site mostly from the USA, however,
e-mail addresses of newsletter subscribers and any information included
in e-mail sent to me is routinely transferred from servers in
Canada to me in the USA. If you don't consent to having whatever
information you provide transferred to me in the USA,
don't subscribe to my e-mail newsletter, and don't send me e-mail.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights under PIPEDA
with respect to any personal information I have about you,
please contact me directly.
I'm sometimes travelling and out of touch for extended periods of time,
but I will attempt to respond to your request as fully and promptly as possible.

I do not knowingly share addresses with my publishers, clients, or employers.
I have never sold, rented, "shared", or knowingly disclosed any
e-mail addresses from this list to anyone. I will never do so
except under duress, and I will vigorously contest any attempt to
compel me to do so or to prohibit me from publicizing any such demand.
I warrant under penalty of perjury that neither I nor, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
any other person or entity with access to data collected through this
Web site has ever received a subpoena, search warrant, "National Security
Letter", or other legal demand or order for disclosure of any such data.
I understand and intend that visitors to this site should be able to, and will, rely
on this statement as part of the basis for their decision of whether to
visit any portion of this Web site, subscribe to my e-mail newsletter,
send me e-mail, or provide other information. In consideration of your willingness
to visit, subscribe, and/or provide other information, and because
I believe it is the proper and ethical course of action, I pledge
that I will update this page as soon as possible, and I will attempt to
notify any individuals whose e-mail addresses are divulged,
if I am ever forced to divulge any e-mail addresses
from this list, or if I become aware that the security of the
list or data concerning Web site visitors has been compromised.
Any attempt to prevent me from updating this Web page in such
an event would be an attempt to coerce me to commit perjury and
fraud. It would also be a violation of my freedom of speech and an attempt to
coerce me to utter false statements to each visitor to this Web page.

You can remove your e-mail address from my notification list or newsletter at any time by following the link in each message.

You can also unsubscribe by sending me an e-mail message (it's easiest for me if you forward the list message, so I know to which list you were subscribed) at "unsubscribe@hasbrouck.org".

This Web site is served using encrypted HTTPS, using a Let's Encrypt signed certificate, not a self-signed certificate. All content from me on this site is served over an encrypted connection. However, there are embedded images, videos, and ads on a few of my Web pages that are served from other unencryped sites. So if your Web browser is set to block unencrypted content on "mixed" Web pages (some browsers are set this way by default), you may not see some images, videos, and ads.

I use cookies on this Web site only if you register as a commenter on my blog, or if you click on some advertisements. That's how I get paid by advertisers. You can view everything on this site without accepting cookies except some embedded images, videos, and ads served by other sites.

There's a widget in the sidebar of each page of my blog that shows my most recent Tweets. This widget is served by Twitter and includes Twitter tracking cookies. If you set your Web browser to "do not track", as I do, you probably won't see this widget. You should still see a link to my Twitter feed, which is public and doesn't require Twitter membership.